Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1935, Page 26

CRIME DETECTION CENTERS URGED Indianan Suggests Each Commonwealth Maintain Own Clearing Houses. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Ncvember 30.—Before the Interstate Commission on Crime, Attorney General Philip Luts, jr., of Indiana advocated today the estab- lishment of a co-ordinated crime de- tection bureau for all States of the Union. College professors and law enforce- ment officials met to hear Lutz and other speakers outline proposed State reciprocal legisiation designed to aid neighboring States in the pursuit and capture of criminals. Lutz's plan entails creation of a bu- reau similar to the one operated by the Department of Justice. The sug- gested bureau would be supervised by the State attorney gemeral and would maintain a fingerprinting and Bertil- lon department. Own Clearing Houses. As proposed by Lutz, each State would have its own clearing house of criminal information. Every scrap of information gleaned about crimes, suspects and arrested persons would be forwarded imme- diately to the State crime clearing house. There it would be available to sim- {lar crime detection offices in every other State. Every peace officer in the State would co-operate with the State bu- reau. Within two days after a man's arrest the peace officers of citles or ommuu would be required to furnish two copies of all information noted, even down to conversation of the pris- oners. Daily Reports Wanted. Daily reports would be required about all felonies committed in the territories of the various peace officers. Daily they would be required to report stolen cars. Each State thus would have a com- plete index of crime within its bor- ders and the information would help trap criminals who crossed State lines, it was asserted. The conference will study the pro- posal Monday and probably present it in shape to be offered to State Leg- islatures for action. RICKENBACKER SAILS| ON AIRLINE MISSION War Ace Sees Tl’:m-At’.lu:tiek Service in Two or Three Years Via Bermuda and Azores. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 30.—Maj. | Edide Rickenbacker, World War ace and general manager of Eastern Air Lines, sailed for Europe todsy with the announced purpose of “co- operating with the Ewopean air services in an American - Euro- pean tie-up.” This will come in two or three years, he pre- dicted, with the opening of an airway service from America to Europe via the Island nf Bermu- Guent St Rickenbacker, Azores. “In time,” he said, “we will also have routes over the Great Circle via Greenland and Iceland. This service may start with a Summer service and then gradually grow to an all-year- around service.” H He pointed out that the distances of each lap were less than the 2,400- mile hop from California to Hawali, but that establishment of service re- quired treaties with Great Britain, Portugal, Spain and PFrance instead of following an all-American course. | B STUDENT FATALLY SHOT Suicide Verdict Issue in Frater- nity House Death. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark, November 30 (#).—Dean Holmes Corlett, jr., of Chicago, 21-year-old junior in the University of Arkansas Business Col- lege, was found shot to death in his fraternity house room today. Coroner Glenn Riggs of Springdale, Ark, returned a verdict of suicide. Riggs said he believed the youth's action resulted from despondency over 8 love affair. Contents of a note were not made public. Mdivani F. amily Converts Church Into Mausoleum Edifice Built by King Peter 111 to Be Final Resting Place. GERONA, Spain (#).—A little church built by King Peter III of Aragon in the thirteenth century will be con- ‘verted into a mausoleum for the Geor- glan Mdivanis. Situated on an estate overlooking the Mediterranean, the church, which the Aragon King built as a place of retreat, came into the possession of Prince Alexis Mdivani a short time be- fore he met death in an automobile accident last August. Alexis purchased the estate as an investment on the recommendation of Jose Marja Sert, his brother-in-law, not know there was a church inside his boundary lines. When he went with Sert one day to look over his pur- chase he found the crumbling little edfice. The peaceful solitude of the rocky promontory on which the church rests —the same peacefulness which at- | through December 11. | The other units are to take off for Not every one is able to go hunting with a gunbearer and cane seat in the manner of King Carol of At the right is Crown Prince Michael, now grown into quite & young man. Rumania, left. man forgot to ask whether they got any birds. G.H. 0. AIR FORGE STAGES TEST DASH Speed of Concentration to Be Determined in Miami Maneuvers. MIAMI, Fla., November 30 (#)— Uncle Sam’s general headquarters air | force began moving its .planes into Florida today for maneuvers designed to test its ability to move on short | notice and concentrate on schedule. One hundred and sixty Army nlanes, with flying personnel and g(oupd crews numbering approximately 300 | men, are to be based at Miami, Fort | Pierce and Vero Beach for maneu- | vers starting Monday and extending Most of the force will take part in the eighth an- | nual all-American air maneuvers here | December 12, 13 and 14. Headquarters Near Miamil. Headquarters for the maneuvers? will be at Chapman Field, south of | Miami. There General Prank M. | Andrews, head of the G. H. Q. force from Langley Field, Va., will diract the 10-day- maneuvers. The first wing, under command of | Brig. General H. H. Arnold, will be based at Vero Beach. The second | wing, under Brig. General H. C. Pratt, | will be based at Miami Municipal Air- port. The third wing, Brig General | Gerald E. Blandt commanding, will be at Fort Pierce. Flying from Four Fields. ‘The planes will include bombing, | attack, pursuit, transport and observa- tion types. They come from Langley Fleld, Va.; Selfridge Pield, Mich.: Barksdale Field, Ia.; and March Pield, Calif. Ground crews and advanced ar- Fort Plerce and Vero Beach during the week. Part of the second wing and headquarters group from Langley Field flew to Jacksonville, Fla., today. Florida tomorrow, PIERCE HALL PLAYERS WILL PRESENT FARCE T. C. Gardner of Riverdale to Be Starred in Show De- cember 9. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. RIVERDALE, Md., November 30.— Starring Ted C. Gardner of River- dale in the title role, Pierce Hall play- ers of Washington will present & three-act farce, “That Guy Winkler,” in the local school December 9. The presentation is sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association. Circuit Court Clerk Brice Bowie, Mayor William A. Carson and Council- man William C. Wedding of River- dale are members of the Invitation Committee. The comedy will be presented in Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets, Washington, December 10 and 11, BURLINGTON, Wis., November 30. —Warning to.wives: If your husbands are hunters or fishermen, check up closely on the excuses they give you. It's & 50-50 shot they’re lying. Why? Well, O. C. (You're Another) Hulett, whose hobby is determining & good lie from the “sick friend” kind, opines that “half the liars in the world are hunters and fishermen.” and about big'fish, enorm rangements officers moved into Miami, | No Hitch-Hiker HARVARD STUDENT USES MOTOR ON SCOOTER. WILLIAM E. DURHAM Of Kansas City, a Harvard Law 8chool junior, shown at Cambridge, Mass., with the child’s scooter he has motorized. Durham claims economy in operation and a maxi- mum speed of 15 miles an hour, ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. HALTS COLLECTION OF TOBACCO TAXES Louisiana Judge Acts on Peti- tion of 3 Firms That Failed to Get Injunction. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, November 30.— Judge Rufus E. Foster of the Pifth District Pederal Circuit Court of Ap- peals here today issued a decree stay- ing collection of tobacco process taxes pending determination of - constitu- tionality of the Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration United States Supreme Court. The collection was stayed on peti- tion of three New Orleans firms who failed to obtian an injunction against collection of the taxes. LION TRIPLETS IN Z0O PHILADELPHIA, November 30 (#). —Dr. Roderick Macdonald, director of the Philadelphia 200, said today & lioness gave birth to triplets there. Dr. Macdonald said he hadn't seen the cubs, but detected three different “voices” as he listened outside of a canvas-covered cage. The cage was covered to give the mother a sense of security and prevent any possibility of the cubs being de- stroyed. Half World’s Liars Sportsmen, Wisconsin Lie Referee Holds scales, and then market them as | shingles. “The weather runs next to game as the best subject for lies,” Hulett said, “probably because the weather is the most popular topic of general conver- sation and affords plenty of room for tall thinking.” One of the entries this year told of the most changeable weather. “Why, it changes so fast,” the suthor re- ted, “that the stores have to put their stock thermometers in refrigera~ A Montreal entrant delcrlbed the intense Canadian cold. One night | in & few years by 200-tonners equlpped | plane yet built in this country, is act by the| {MISSION GROUP TO HOLD | of the Women's Missionary Society of ‘The camera- ~ Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Z00TON AIRSHP | FEW YEARS OFF Promenade Decks to Be Feature of Ocean Craft, Says Sikorsky. Flying boats and Clipper airships of | the 19-to-25-ton type now operated on scheduled routes will be replaced with=- with promenade decks and making overnight flights to Europe, Igor I Sikorsky, pioneer builder of the Clip- pers, predicted yesterday. ‘Writing in the National Aeronautic Magazine, Sikorsky disclosed his plant | already is at work on two new air giants, one 40 tons and the other 65 tons, as against the largest Sikorsky Clipper of 19 tons now in service on the Pan-American Airways. The new Martin China Clipper, largest sea- only 25 tons. “To my mind, scheduled sairplane passenger and express service across | the Atlantic is already at hand, and the craft to Accomplish this will be fiying castles,” Sikorski declared. “The best vehicle is the large fiying | boat with a range above 3,000 miles. With further improvements in the | types of planes we have already bulit, these clipper ships can have a flying range of 4,000 miles, carry a reason- | able pay load and possess all of the | luxurious comforts of an ocean liner. Without pressing for high speeds,.it is easily possible for large fiying boats to cross the Atlantic in 24 hours.” Some of the details of the fying | boat of the future, he predicted, will | be a speed of between 150 and 250 | miles per hour, a flying height of be- tween 15000 and 20,000 feet with oxygen supplied to the cabin, accom- modations for from 30 to 40 passen- gers with comfortable berths, dining room, promenade deck and danc- ing ficor. Regular daily flying service across the Atlantic will come “within three to five years,” Sikorsky said, and added: “I personally do not visualize stratospheric flying across the ocean. It is feasible and possible, but there are no great advantages, and cer- tainly the comforts of the passengers would be less. For these reasons I be- lieve the convertional ships flying from 15,000 to 20,000 feet high, with | some provision for releasing oxygen in the cabins, offer the most practical | solution to long-distance overocean | travel.” S THANK OFFERING SERVICE | Atonement Lutheram Church Women Will Hold Exercises This Evening. ‘The annual thank offering service | Atonement Lutheran Church will be held at 8 p.m. today in the church chapel at North Capitol street and Rhode Island avenue. Dr. Luther H. ‘Waring, former pastor of the George- town Evangelical Lutheran Church, will speak. His topic is “The Measure of Our Thank Offering.” Music will be supplied by the church choir, under the direction of H. Emerson Meyers, and b( Mrs. Elsie D. Fillman, soprano. Mrs. Marjorie K. Gaardsmoe, presi- dent of the missionary organization, will present a description of the thank offering in missionary work. ROOSEVELT .STUDENTS TO PRESENT ‘PINAFORE’ Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta ‘Will Be Staged Thursday and Friday. The Gilbert and Bullivan operetta, “H. M. 8. Pinafore,” will be pre- sentéd by students of Roosevelt High School on Thursday and Friday eve- nings of this week. Leading roles will be sung by ] {MISSION TO LEPERS SEEUNI]ARY RUA[]S' F[lRl‘.ES EUMBINEB LOSE STATE FUND Commission Halts . Mont- gomery Aid Until' Deficit Is Settled. BY JACK ALLEN, Btaff Correspondent of The Btar. ROCKVILLE, Md.,, November 30.— Maintenance of secondary roads and payment of highway debt service was discontinued in Montgomery County by the State Roads Commission today and will not be resumed until the county satisfies the deficit existing in its account with the commission. Official notification of the suspen- sion of those benefits, obtained under the gasoline tax fund, was received by Ira C. Whitacre, clerk to the county commissioners, in a letter from Dr, Homer E. Tabler, chairman of the State Roads Commission, who said his organfzation had no alternative but to take such action. Court Action Threatened. Legal proceedings to prohibit and enjoin the road body from any fur- ther extension of maintenance or debt service funds to counties whose ac- counts show overdrafts have been threatened by counsel for one county whose actount is in a satisfactory con- dition, Dr. Tabler explained. Montgomery, which is in the State's debt to the extent of $245,757.66 for | road work and debt service, is one of half a dozen or more counties that will be affected by the order. Bond Isssue Possible. ‘The matter will be referred to the | Montgomery commissioners at their | meeting Tuesday, Whitacre declared. It is expected that a bond issue may have to be sold to retire the debt, for the road work must be continued and no provisions for that item was made when the new county budget was pre- pared. Shortly before adopting the current | budget the commissioners had obtained | a promise from the highway body that | the gasoline tax benefits would be con- tinued and only a small portion of the | county’s annual allotment would be | applied to the deficit. It is estimated that approximately $71,000 is required each year for main- tenance and debt service in Mont- gomery. MRS. MARYV KELI.EY EXPIRES AT MlAMIK Sister of Justice Van De Vuter. Left Capital 3 Days Ago After Visit. Mrs. Mary V. Kelley, 67, sister of Justice Willis Van Devanter of the | United States Supreme Court, died yesterday in Miami, Fla., acccrdmg to the Associated Press. Mrs. Kelley left Washington three | days ago after a visit here. She re- | wmmlylmmtmomxrom a trip abroad. A native of Marion, Ohio, she was | a member of the Daughters of the | American Revolution and of me‘ xpu.copu Church of Beuefonumew survlvtmx also are another brother, | Spencer Van Devanter of Severy, | | Kans.: two daughters, Mrs. J. M. Mc- | | Caskill of Miami, in whose home she | was visiting at the time of her death, | and Mrs. John D. Inskeep of Belle- fontaine; & son, William A. Lawrence | of Miami, and two sisters, Mrs. John W. Lavey of Cheyenne, Wyo, and | Mrs. Raridan of Washington. Funeral arrangements are to be | announced later. WILL MEET ON FRIDAY Organization Which Has Raised $70,000 in Capital to Hold Christmas Ingathering. The Washington City Auxiliary Mission to Lepers, an organization which has raised more than $70,000 in Washington for aiding lepers, will hold its semi-annual Christmas in- gathering from 2 to 4:30 p.m. PFriday at the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South. Mrs. G. C. D. Townshend, president of the auxiliary, said more than $3,000 had been raised last year through va- rious Sunday school classes, mission- ary socleties and other organizations and individuals in 200 churches here and in nearby Maryland and Virginia. A starving leper can be supplied a | year’s food for $12, a leper in a colony where the temperature often registers 20 degrees below zero a year's fuel | for $5, Mrs. Townshend said. Five dollars will provide medical attention for one year, including a treatment | each week, while $40 will provide com« plete care for a leper for a year, she estimates. German Divorces Wife Who Refused To Bear Children Court’s Action Forecasts | Changes Proposed in Family Laws. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 30.—The dis- trict court in Koeslin granted a farmer a divorce today because his wife refused to hear children. The court held the farmers are the main- that “the family is the trustee of the” people. mu-mnwndsmdmmwm ON RAIL CROSSING Communities Near Kensing- ton and Federation to Aid Drive. By a Blaff Correspondent of The Star. KENSINGTON, Md., November 30. —Efforts being made in bebalf of elimination of the local grade crossing —scene of nine fatalities and numer- ous casualties—will be intensified dur- ing the next few days. dents are forced to negotiate the dan- gerous intersection in their travels to and from home, will join local organ- A resolution under which the pow- erful Montgomery County Civic Ped- Men’'s—Women's Boys'—Children’s House Slippers 4% eration, composed of some 40 asso- clations in every section of the county, would lend - its support aiso is being prepared and will be introduced when the federation meets on December 9. Adoption of the measure is a fore- gone conclusion, for the county-wide group previously has passed resolu- tions advocating elimination of the Funds for the project were made available more than a year ago when the Public Works Administration ap- p-mumooo grant, but the State Indian Moccasin—D’Orsay Bridge and Felt Styles Bootees and Suedettes ALL SIZES Women's New $1.98 to $2.98 ‘Dress Shoes .$I 69 Oveyr 60 Smart Styles The Newest Leathers All Style Heels Sizes 4 to 9 Pullman Style Commerce this week to lend their as- sistance in the campaign. An active supporter is the Ameri- can ' Automobile Association, which conducted a recent survey disclosing the Kensington crossing to be mote dangerous than any other railroad- highway intersection in the Greater Washington area. The A. A. A. investigation disclosed | that the crossing is even more dan- gerous than the one at Rockville, where 14 school children lost their lx:memncmm -bus wreck last Conviction Rate High, CHICACO, November 30 ). —Chi« cago justice claimed a new high monthly record for criminal conviee tions today. State’s Attorney Thomas J. Courtney said convictions were obs~ tained in 92 per cent of the 190 cases brought to trial in November. e Firms Dispute. Italy’s feverish accumulstion of war material has caused trade disputes be+ tween Italian and Durban, South Af- rica, firms following a government refusal to export articles used fof “Slipperland” Is Now Ready! Thousands of Pairs Men’s-Women'’s Boys’-Children’s “Gift Slippers” at great savings Do Not Fail to Visit “Slipperland” Women'’s Corduroy and Satin Slippers Beautiful Styles § Many Colors Medium Heels ALL SIZES C Women’s All Leather Bridge and D'Orsay Flexible Leather soles all sizes Men’s All Leather House Slippers 60: i Opera or Everetts All sizes during a fire the flames froze, forcing the firemen to use blow torches to . o Harry Nichter, Robert Kohn, William Richard = Townsend, tracted King Péeter to thé spot some 700 years ago, deeply impressed the weather,” Hulett said. running true to form again mnlpflnee. He remarked: “What an ideal spot for a mauso- Jjeum. One day I would like to be buried here.” Three days later he was dead. scrt remémbered Alexis' remark when ar- ranging for his funeral and resolved it that the prince’s wish be On New Year ave, Hulett conferees will go into a huddle name the new world champion liar to succeed Verne Osborne of Centralia, M'h)hltyul’wlofmvefl- trained goat. “This goatiwas so obe-’ thaw them out so they could extin- Wayne Hill, Betty Sando, Lillian Pru- itt and Thelms Steele. The production is under direction of Miss Emma Louise Thompson -and Miss Esther Galbraith. A .ccompani- ment will be supplied by the high school orchestra. Capital Chosen for Convention. Men'’s Storm, Dress or Work “ All Lasts Al} Sizes